Glad to hear of all your activity!
We have soooo much cudweed. Wish the ladies were here!

Hope you get Pearl Crescents and can find the eggs/larvae, so we can get some search images.

Can't wait for things to get started down here--probably not for another month.

So far just the Hackberry and Tawny cats, and Tiger eggs. I think this cool weather is holding the butterflies back a little, and Linda mentioned on the Ok. Gardening forum (remember Linda from Oklahoma?) that a lot of them are to the East of us right now.

Good luck with your PCs MissSherry. Sandy raised some and has photos of the cats and chrysalis on her pbase page.

Susan

I hope to get American ladies soon, and I'd really LOVE to raise some PCs - I've never even seen PC cats.
My female luna moth laid about 130 eggs in the paper bag, and then laid about 100 more inside the cage before she left last night!
If anybody wants any luna eggs, please let me know!
Sherry

I'm so sad. It's been rainy here in Central TX, and I haven't seen anyone visiting the BF garden.

Is my garden too young for such activities as yours, Sherry?

I will not lose hope -- my camera battery is fully charged, ready to capture the first "landing."

You are definitely not alone! It has been cold and rainy here since Friday, and while it hasn't rained today, it is cloudy and not very conducive to butterfly flying. Only my familiar Cabbage Whites have been out, and one of them got eaten by the stray cat yesterday while trying to mate the female butterfly. Oops!

It is supposed to continue being rainy all week off and on, so not likely to see any more activity for a few days at least.

Susan

It has been so slow here. The only butterflies that my friend Sue and I are seeing aren't staying to lay eggs. We have seen some frits, she has seen some swallowtails but I haven't. I have seen some Tigers flying through and one Giant but they must be males. I am okay with the Polys not showing up yet as my vine is growing nicely but I will need lots more to feed cats if and when they do show up. Sulphurs have been around on occasion but the eggs have disappeared. Sue had Monarch cats but I haven't seen any. The weather is warming up nicely but we have cool mornings still. Weird weather. Guess everything is late with the cold weather this winter.

We're still having cool nights and early mornings, too, Mary.
I finally saw an American lady today. It flew by quickly before I could get its picture, and I have no idea whether or not it laid any eggs anywhere, don't even know if it was a male or female.
Another female luna moth emerged today - lunas rock!
Sherry

Mary,
Funny you say that since although we always are excited about them coming back, I half dread the return of the polys, and having to head out to the extension garden a couple of times a week to cut pipevine!! My pipevines have a LOT of growing to do to even feed one batch!
I've released a few recently but no eggs, yet.
Released number 77 of the year today though, a female julia.
Hope the BF visits pick up for the cool-weather folks soon!
Kelly

We are having an extended spring here in Wisconsin, meaning it is still pretty cool, 60's during the day, mid-30's at night. I did see a mourning cloak the other day, and we have some bumblebees out in the yard. So there is sign of life, but we are not ready for the monarchs yet.

Mid-30's at night, Eric? That's the middle of winter! :)
Several years ago I planted some false indigo/Amorpha fruticosa bushes and a locust/Robinia pseudoacacia tree, for the silver spotted skippers to use, all of which have spread! I saw a SSS laying an egg on one of the false indigos this afternoon while I was planting in my garden. The locust tree has been blooming profusely this spring, and the white flower clusters are REAL popular with the pipevine swallowtails. I see them nectaring on them just about every time I look at the blooms, and they really work the flowers the way they do their favorite nectar flowers, like butterfly bush, lantana, Asclepias curassavica, pentas, etc. You probably wouldn't want to plant a locust tree just for the once a year blooms, but they bloom early when the other good nectar plants aren't yet flowering, so if you're thinking about planting a medium sized tree, you might consider it. You also get a lot of cute SSS cats.
We call the false indigo bushes LSU bushes - the flowers are dark purple and gold! :)
Sherry